Why doesn't IntelliJ use tabs?

Question

How to use tabs for indentation in IntelliJ IDEA? , I went through and set each extension to "Use tab symbol", as shown below.

This does not work. IntelliJ still inserts spaces when I press the tab button. Did I miss something? Where is the intelliJ button [Please use tabs like I ef'ing told you to do] ?

(FYI, I am using IntelliJ Ultimate 2016.2)

It looks promising ...

... but, apparently, all this lies: (

Answer 1

Perhaps you have the option "Settings-> Editor-> General →" Allow carriage placement inside tabs ".

Deselect and try again.

Answer 2

Go to Settings → Editor → Code Style and uncheck the Detect and use existing indents box for editing .

Answer 3

If you open the .editorconfig file, you will see something similar to the following

 # editorconfig.org root = true [*] indent_style = spaces indent_size = 2 end_of_line = lf charset = utf-8 trim_trailing_whitespace = true insert_final_newline = true 

I changed it to the tab and 4, closed the project and reopened it.
I know this is an absurd step to take, and it has a bug report.